BSW 2017: 18th Belgian Surgical Week Thermae Palace Hotel Ostend, Belgium, May 18-20, 2017 |
Conference website | http://www.belgiansurgicalweek.be |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bsw2017 |
Submission deadline | February 28, 2017 |
On behalf of the Board of the RBSS I would like to invite you to join us for the 18th Belgian Surgical Week which will take place in the Thermae Palace Hotel in Ostend on Thursday 18th and Friday 19th May 2017. This year’s scientific theme is “Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS)”.
ERAS is a multi-modal peri-operative care pathway designed to achieve enhanced recovery for patients undergoing surgery. It represents a (para)medic shift in considering and re-thinking current peri-operative care. Multidisciplinary work between surgeons, anaesthesiologists, nurses, social workers and physiotherapists,... are crucial in order to achieve this goal. More and more ERAS finds its entrance in our surgical daily practice, sometimes also pushing limits and taking down longstanding dogmatic walls in our institutions.
The meeting will be centred around plenary sessions, free oral presentation sessions and sessions organized by the different affiliated surgical societies and sections of the RBSS. During the presidential symposium on Thursday, professor Kehlet (Denmark), considered to be the founding father of ERAS, will explain us the principles of ERAS and why we should implement it. Professor Housmans (Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA) will focus on the role of anesthesia in ERAS. The plenary session on Friday will focus on ERAS and on the evolution of surgical training in the UK, the Netherlands and Belgium. Mr. Preston (Guildford, UK) will highlight the role of ERAS in oesophageal surgery and professor Cassivi (Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA) will focus on the role of communication with patients and its link with ERAS.
Besides these sessions, the different surgical societies and sections of the RBSS will also organise their scientific sessions.
To complete the scientific programme, we foresee dedicated time for free oral paper/case report and free video sessions and of course the topics of these sessions are not limited to the theme of the congress. We thus encourage you to submit abstracts via our dedicated conference website www.belgiansurgicalweek.be , where the instructions for authors can be found. Abstract submission is open between 15th January 2017 till 28th February 2017 23:59:59 CET. Trainees and young surgeons (up to 35 years of age) can submit their work for the young investigator award. The two best clinical and the two best experimental papers will be presented in the plenary session on Thursday. They will compete for a prize for the best clinical and a prize for the best experimental paper.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Instructions for authors can be found at www.belgiansurgicalweek.be.
Venue
The conference will be held in the Thermae Palace hotel in Ostend, Belgium.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to info@rbss.be